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People are meeting the arrivals off the planes giving them leaflets and all kinds of different languages talking about Free Hong Kong talking about Police Terrorism here at cetera largely there has been a good response it has to be said good natured response from new arrivals somebody will demand especially perhaps among mainland mainland chinese visitors as people arrive here on the planes or they are being given all of these leaflets you have other people Walking Around with their laptops open explaining in different languages on power point presentations what this is all about excuse me welcome to hong kong and over here we have one of these ubiquitous pop up lenin walls as they are known that weve seen these all around hong kong people stop putting post it notes with all sorts of political messages on them here at the airports because they dont want to overstay their welcome they have a human pop up lenin wall so where you are right off your flight from wherever you come this frida
Of being reckless they did not mind destroying hong kongs economy they have no stake in the society which so many people have helped to build and that thats why they resort to old is. And to obstruction is causing huge damage to economy and sort of daily life all over people so i am indeed very worried about this situation and thats why i appeal for calm calmness and rationality to help us to overcome this situation robin pride has more now from hong kongs airport. Incredible scenes here this friday evening at Hong Kongs International Airport where this protest suddenly swelling in numbers and now completely taking over the arrivals hall at the this ad terminal if i can just ask paul to just give us a bit of a top shot here there are 2 main arrival halls here in the terminal a and b. With a large section in between and all of these areas are now completely filled with mainly 2 years but also older protesters many of them Wearing Masks this nobody has given any permission for this prote
People for jaywalking in this mandatory minimum sentences passed during joe bidens tenure increased the federal prison population by about 800 percent and theres a pretty direct correlation between mandatory minimum sentences and federal prison growth i think the causal link is pretty clear an undeniable in fairness to biden he wasnt alone in advocating harsh sentencing and it was electorally popular but the issue has become controversial in 2019 because he campaigned on his crime legislation until relatively recently despite the obvious social devastation and his recent apologies have been filled with qualifications and he said were talking about things that happened a long time ago barack obama trusted me that should be enough reference. Darrius is now 46. 00 and adjusting to a world thats changed since he was jailed at 23. 00 but while billions of dollars have been spent on prisons and police due to bidens legislation the lack of opportunity in his hometown remains vivid. Worse we d
Especially during the later obama years ok what does that leave russian and chinese influence. Well china is deeply deeply involved in the issue because china as your correspondent was saying is indeed the 3rd party and theres an area of the former Princely State of german kashmir that is now held by china called the outside chin and china has deep Strategic Interests in the region because of unsettled border questions with india in the himalayas both on the east and in the west in kashmir. At the same time china has some limitations in terms of challenging the domestic politics of other countries because it has a very strong sovereignty norm and really rejects criticisms of other countries about the treatment of minorities in areas like to batten sinchon sinchon so there is with china i think a little bit of. Choice to move it towards more neutral International Fora like the Un Security Council which is in fact what pakistan is doing to with russia its not as clear because i think rus